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ANATOMY -- BONET, Th. Sepulchretum sive Anatomia practica ex cadaveribus morbo denatis, proponens historias et observationes (…). Ed. altera quam novis commentariis (…) J.J. Mangetus. Geneva, Cramer & Perachon, 1700. 3 vols. (16), 916, 704, 640 pp. W. 1 front.-portr. & 2 diff. ti-vign. Fol. Cont. vellum w. raised bands. (Spine ends worn, vol. 1. w. upper joint split, some wormholes in the endpapers, some yellowing throughout, discreet stamp on title-pp.: D. Luigi Zangrandi).
Théophile Bonet (1620-1689), physician at Geneva. - 'This is the first collection of systemized anatomical anatomy. It contains clinical and pathological descriptions of nearly 3.00 cases selected from the literature from the time of Hippocrates, but mainly from the 16th and 17th centuries.' G-M 2274; cf. Waller 2278 (for the ed. Geneva 1679); Wellcome II 198.€ 240
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